My queen ant

[bhoeschcod]

May 3/09-Well i got a queen of the tetra species [pavement ant]and so ill be logging my experinces here!So far she is in a test tube setup and in a dark draw as i dont wanna distrub her.I will update next week or in three days.My queen laid an egg! May 9/09-Now there is three in counting!Well i boosted her with a pupae that had a leg comming out and now she has her first little worker!plus six eggs!I hope this colony grows big Btw i have three other queens and one actually colony for backup Anyway i have no clue as to what i should do wait till next year to make the inclosure?
Here are some pics sorry for bad quality ant eggs are hard to post a picture of they are the whitish blob near the entrance.And the last is of the two queens.

 

[Richard McJimsey]

Awesome photos, good luck with the ants!

 

[cacoseraph]

hey man

here is a great trick for taking pics of little things like ants and tiny babies of other species.... a magnifying glass!

i am not kidding! you have to be careful not to clack the mag to the camera lens... but other than that, you just have to experiment a little bit to get good at it

the best mag to use is a double glass lens magnifier... you can can use the cheaper plastic lensed kinds, but they produced weird smears cuz they aren't usually as perfectly shaped as the glass lenses

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hires (for fast connections)


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for still pictures it works even better

that centipede is in a ~5" diameter tupperware

one of his legs grows a new foot every time he molts

some of those toes are just a few mm long... and the hair is less than a mm long...and you can clearly see it.





i think if you got decent with this technique you could take even better pics and really document what is going on with your ants.


good luck

 

[bhoeschcod]

Lol not to mention lighting thanks you two!